hello friends it's the 2018 NBA Playoffs, a place where dreams GO 2 DIE

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7-8 on shots defended by love, and horford is an established love stopper on D, brutal matchup for the cavs

This was the first time Al Horford scored 20 points in less than 30 minutes in a playoff game and the first time he has done it period with the Celtics, per @bball_ref. Last game was Hawks vs. Nets on 4/4/15.

3rd time in his career he's had 20 points and 5+ AST in < 30 min.

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) May 14, 2018

nba ref twitter is always a good time...

Since 2015, the Warriors' record in the playoffs:
-When Scott Foster is officiating their game = 7-7
-When Scott Foster is not officiating their game = 48-10 https://t.co/jlbBuELwJ3

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) May 13, 2018

Did you bother to check the other side? In the last two seasons, the Rockets' record in the playoffs:
-When Scott Foster is officiating their game = 0-4
-When Scott Foster is not officiating their game = 14-3 https://t.co/DDz3j8fvk2

— ClutchFans (@clutchfans) May 14, 2018

everyone does hate scott foster tho. cp called him out directly this season after he got Td up (for nothing):

"Yeah, Scott Foster at his finest," Paul said. "You know what I mean? He just never fails.

"Some of them, you can communicate with. You've just gotta figure out who you can and you can't. I got a tech tonight. I'm over there with referee Courtney Kirkland saying, 'That's Scott, that's Scott,' and I got a tech. That's history there. He the man. That's who they pay to see."

"There's got to be a way that we have dialogue and stuff like that. I don't know, good ol' Scott Foster, though. That guy ..."

sounds like lue is contemplating starting tristan against horford. not sure if tristan's still got it, but he destroyed horford in the cavs/hawks series a few years ago

C’s up 1-0 in the ecf is definitely what we all predicted five minutes into the first quarter of the first game of the season right

lol draymond

harden on pace for 144 points

draymond looking composed and focused to start this one

draymond on pace for 16 techs but only one will be called

holy shit slow down guys

no

Bullshit call on dg

he shoved his arms forward it was a foul

Lol

How was that not out on draymond

In a series played at this level, the reffing will almost always look horrible at times. It's part of the game.

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my big brother is gonna beat u up --kevin love

CP elbowed him the the bhole.

too much going on in this game

CP3 elbowed KD in the butt 🤨 pic.twitter.com/z5lAnQQyyH

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 15, 2018

Elbow ==> ass pic.twitter.com/z7CPVmyj9k

— Big Slime #UglyBoyz (@LordBalvin) May 15, 2018

that’s how u know he’s a savvy vet, he puts the elbow in the other man’s butt

why is every commercial on these games a mea culpa from some big company

is this what tv is like now

Rockets looking gassed already with a couple minutes left in the third

Lol ciderpress I saw the facebk and Wells Fargo ones back to back the other night and it stuck out so bad I told my wife about it

Now fuckin Uber has one!! Uber! Literally synonymous with shitheads

the warriors don't even seem to be playing very well outside of kd and they're up by 13...

it's like when dominos rolled out their "we know our pizza is bad but now our pizza is less bad" campaign but w/ dystopia instead

instead of bad pizza we're sorry abt your personal data and finances

amazon doesnt even care, theyre just like "you fucking love buying shit keep doing it and we can get it to you right now"

rockets have looked like garbage most of this game, surprised theyre only down 10

game 1 at home rockets playing like this is...not a good sign

yeah this is dispiriting

NBA should institute a 1 pt penalty for every complaint about a call or non-call just for this series.

it's amazing how the rockets just crater when capela isn't in the game

I’m sad

its like...it's like they...

like they shouldn't go acapela

hahaha nice

cool that c-webb is on tnt's in-game a-team now btw

my current theory is that playing w/ dwight messes you up for life

that game was some boring ass iso basketball

i really enjoyed that game actually. there was..... a lot of iso-ing but a good pace and some pretty fun back and forth shot making

i didn't find it aesthetically pleasing but fascinating to watch all the mismatch hunting.

that game was a pretty tidy illustration of the problem with playing the warriors... the rockets pretty much matched the warriors two best players last night (KD & klay) but man did the rockets role players look not ready for that stage/intensity at all. i guess it was an unusually weird game for ariza and he's Been There Before but damn they were shooting shit off the sides of the backboard and shit. i guess there will be games where gordon and ariza play well and they look legit but that looked a lot less like a team ready to push the warriors to the brink than i thought. and capela did not seem to make an impact last night aside from a few blocks.

i didn't find it aesthetically pleasing but fascinating to watch all the mismatch hunting.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:25 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark

it was a little odd that both teams were doing that from the jump. i guess it speaks to the intensity of the series but that kinda relentless hunting feels more like something from a game 6 to me or something.

not every postgame thing i've read agrees but i thought capela was good at limiting draymond's help defense. draymond could not roam off of him out of fear of the lob. i felt like when capela was out of the game draymond started to get really disruptive on harden.

https://deadspin.com/the-warriors-are-better-than-the-rockets-1826038408

i think this makes some interesting points about the rockets style of play

yeah the rockets deciding to make the fewest passes in the entire league was an interesting choice

hot potato ball movement is such a hallmark of championship teams